Wisconsin WARN notices 2026: 58 filings, 4,046 workers so far

Wisconsin employers filed 58 WARN notices covering 4,046 workers between January 5 and November 5, 2026. Most of them are closures: the state marks 37 of the 58 with its closure code. The largest is United Natural Foods, Inc. in Sturtevant, a closure of 443 workers filed March 16 and effective June 20.

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What the 58 notices say

• Milwaukee has the most notices, and Kenosha is close. Milwaukee filed 6 for 450 workers, Kenosha 4 for 390, Racine 3 for 252. Green Bay and Madison have 2 each, for 183 and 26 workers.
• Closures outnumber everything else. 37 notices carry the code CL. Another 20 carry WR, and 1 reads "Unknown".
• One employer filed six times. Cell.Plus, LLC sent 6 notices this year. UnityPoint Health sent 3.
• Electronics Stores is the industry printed most often, on 6 notices. General Medical and Surgical Hospitals follows with 3, then Commercial Banking, Cheese Mfg and Residential Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing with 2 each.
• May had the most notices, 10. June and September had 1 each.
• The median notice covers 53 workers.
• More filings than a year ago. Through November 5, 2025, Wisconsin had 50 notices for 3,355 workers. Through November 5, 2026, it has 58 for 4,046.

The ten largest

Employer	City	Workers	Notice date	Effective date
United Natural Foods, Inc.	Sturtevant	443	Mar 16	Jun 20
Charter Communications, Inc.	Appleton	313	Mar 18	Jun 21
Cargill Meat Solutions Corp	Milwaukee	221	Feb 10	Apr 11
Polaris Inc.	Osceola	189	Apr 21	Jul 27
Lakeshore Community Health Care, Inc.	Manitowoc, Sheboygan, West Bend	178	Apr 8	Mar 31
Cree Lighting	Racine	172	Mar 12	Mar 12
Parkhurst Dining, LLC	Kenosha	160	May 15	Jul 3
Ryder Integrated Logistics, Inc.	Green Bay	151	Apr 30	Jun 30
M.M.D., LLC d/b/a The Allstaff Group	Kenosha	148	Oct 29	Dec 31
Wells Vehicle Electronics	Fond Du Lac	100	Mar 30	Jun 2

All dates are 2026. The state's Parkhurst Dining entry adds a note: the layoff begins 05/21/26 and is temporary. Lakeshore Community Health Care lists three cities on one notice, and its effective date falls before its notice date, as the state printed it.

How Wisconsin publishes its notices

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development posts its notices on one page, by city, with a short code for the kind of notice. CL is the closure code. WR is the other code it uses this year; we keep it as printed.

Two of the 58 notices print no worker count, so the 4,046 total and the median come from the other 56. Two more print the count with extra words in the same cell, and we take the number. Every 2026 notice names a city. None of this year's notices is marked as amended or updated. We last read the agency's page on November 10, 2026.

The full Wisconsin list, every notice from 2020 on, is on the Wisconsin page.